thinkfuture by hellofuture - innovation disruption and the future

Chris Kalaboukis

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All about innovation, startups, and the future - discussing topics which range from technology (AI, IoT, Big Data) to technologies impact on humans (Work, Play, Culture) and the future of everything in any sector - retail, banking, technology, hiring...Show More

We unpack what it takes to build a successful brand right now - and it's not as hard and you might think. Its an amazing wide ranging interview with Henry Kaminski, Jr. – Founder of Unique Designz. We dig into the best way to have a unique voice amon...Show More

Today's episode digs into AI based recruiting and bias.
What if we did eliminate bias, but we didn’t think it was, because of the output of the system? Even with a fully transparent AI picking candidates, would we ever get to a fully unbiased system?...Show More

To innovate – you must absorb many different sources of information – especially in the areas not in the area you are trying to innovate in, let those percolate in your brain, then apply them to your current challenges. If you don’t fill up your fu...Show More

Wondering what SEO even means anymore? We peel back the layers of work needed to get the organic relevancy you've always wanted. In discussion with Damon Burton of SEONational, we cover meta keywords (not a thing anymore), loading speed, mobile frien...Show More

We talk about the past and future of AI and all of the elements of it - from computer vision to machine learning to data science. We cover AI taking your job, how virtual assistants work (and don't work), some of the most exciting breakthroughs in A...Show More

We delve into deep data analysis, does it have the answer to every question? A while back I blogged about big data, and the possibility that with enough of it, we'd be able to answer every question. While this was a future vision, we may be there rig...Show More

We chat with Bob Sager, author of 101 Freaking Brilliant Business Ideas: And Ten Ways YOU Can Create Your Own. We range from discussions on innovation and great new business ideas - how to get training to stick, and exercises to make you more creativ...Show More

Why is Elon Musk so interesting? He solves problems with solutions of the future - we need to invent new things before we can solve them.
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As we go through life, we experience it. And as we experience it, we make decisions to take on things that we need to do, actions that we need to take. As the world floods over us, we filter and capture an infinitesimally small portion of it, then de...Show More

Stern Robots are better than friendly robots if we want humans to just get stuff done - we need our robots to be more proactive
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Why do we ignore inventors who have submitted ideas into our innovation programs, simply because we dont like giving them the bad news that their idea may not be the right fit right now?
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As we travel that road to the future faster and faster, we need to look up, focus our eyes way down the road, put on our high beams, and look as far forward as we can.
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Innovation is that at its best, it’s a messy process, very experimental, and like a lot of experiments, there can be many, many failures before you see success
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Now is not the time to relax, but to turn up the volume on your innovation efforts. While you may be doing well today, this is the best time for you to prepare for the disruption that tomorrow will bring.
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If everything is changing, and will change, how do you deal with the change? How can you anticipate the changes, prepare for the changes, and be ready to make the leap when the time comes?
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Which of the companies are more innovative: those who talk about innovation incessantly, but do not provide any mechanism, time, or resources to building innovative products and services, or those who do?
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Visionary companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook understand that they cannot rely on their core business forever – they are leveraging these good times to expand into even more market segments, probing for new products and services, and driving i...Show More

Chris interviews Craig Shames of Greatest Idea Ever, a site where Craig curates the Greatest Ideas Ever - Very cool, mind expanding new ideas.
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To change, we need help. We need structure. We need to revise our environment in order to force or trigger ourselves to the behavior that we want.
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Today Chris chats with the founder of Lead Cookie, Jake Jorgovan, who grew his business from Zero to $33k MRR productized service in 6 months
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We are born curious, with wide open minds. We are genetically and chemically designed to be open to new experiences from the moment we are born
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How will you prepare for this future hyper mobile, hyper-connected worker and customer? Will you have the infrastructure to be able to support their requirement for just-in-time-and-place delivery of products and services, which will be their expecta...Show More

In many cases, you wont get the best ideas first time around, if you have had a number of failed innovation programs in the past. You may need to innovate, rinse and repeat.
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Is the customer always right when it comes to innovation? Not necessarily. Plus, some want to be told what they need, and others dont.
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In 1983, Robert Cialdini outlined 6 principles of influence salespeople and marketers use to this day. With the advent of the internet and social media, humans can no longer be influenced in the same way.
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If people are uncomfortable in your innovation session, if you hear the words creepy and maybe we shouldnt go there, then maybe you are on to something innovative and disruptive
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Today we delve deep into data, how data can give you insights you never new, how the human touch is still important, and if massive data can answer every question
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What Ever Happened To Not Talking Politics Or Religion? You should have the right to remain silent on your political beliefs if you want to.
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Corporations change in the same way people do - through both positive and negative stimulus (although negative is more effective)
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In the disruption of work, we will all need to be generalists to some degree, even roles at large enterprises will require broad skill sets and an entrepreneurial mindset. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p114/
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After 4 years in limbo, the JOBS act will finally allow regular people to invest in startups for equity, opening up a huge new funding source. It's a great day. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p113/
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Did you know that being bored helps you innovate? Stop consuming and start thinking in those idle moments - who knows what innovative ideas you can come up with. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p112/
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Chris goes into detail on how 90% of the internet is now content marketing, people blasting sales messages thinly disguised as content on all channels. Its time to disrupt this. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p111/
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Disrupted shows an older worker trying to fit into startup culture where ageism abounds - how do you defeat this stuff? Tolerance, rapport building and busting out of the stereotype Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p110/
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Most of the sharing economy jobs which are being created are ending up being menial jobs which will eventually be replaced with autonomous cars, drones and algorithms. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p106/
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In this episode, Chris talks about two ideas and he invented back in 2006 and 2000 respectively, and how those ideas went on to be great startups - today, but not then. Show Notes https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p102/
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Bars and restaurants and going offline - people are being more meditative and mindful - this is a real trend or just nostalgia?
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While the secret to having a successful startup is not really much of a secret - you need passion skill and most importantly demand to succeed.
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Australia decides to replace history and geography in elementary school with coding - good to see some real disruption going on in education
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Do you look at your day and you are totally booked solid with no time to waste? This may be why you are not innovating. Chris explains why one way to innovate is to purposely waste time
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Will the future be awesome, or will it suck? Chris talks about social media 10 years out, and what the world will be like, and how we might feel about it.
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If you want REAL stability in your work life, you MUST start your own business. Being an entrepreneur returns the control of your life back to YOU.
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Worried about the seemingly forhcoming recession of 2016? Now is the time to double-down on your innovation program - now is the time to grow through innovation
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Who will win in a war between virtual and augmented reality? Whenever we create virtual things, they are always surpassed by real things. Modifying real things, be it sounds, brains or reality, always wins.
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In this episode, Chris asks the question - have we lost our individuality to the collective - and if so how will that change the nature of everything that we do when it comes to people? Will all decisions now require the crowd to chime in?
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Thinking about building the next app which will take over the world and be the next billion dollar startup? Think again - apps are giving way to smart agents of the seamless world - technology will serve us instead of the other way around
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In the future of work, having multiple jobs will be a normal things that we will all be doing. We should prepare for the future.
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Finally - it took 80 years to remove the restriction that only rich people could invest in startups. Two years ago Obama signed the JOBS act and just a few days ago, the SEC finally allowed it to be so. Now anyone can invest in startups.
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In this day, with millions of both professional and amateur researchers out there on the internet, you cant deceive anyone for long.
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Are you a student? Then this episode will hit home - Chris talks about the future of education, and how our current system needs to be disrupted
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Do we really need to innovate? Seems like sometimes, innovation is the first thing to go when times are tough, but thats when you need it the most.
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Just because your company grows doesnt mean that you become less innovative. All you need is a really good internal innovation program with clear communications and a path for these ideas to product or patent.
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Have we seen this before? People are accepting equity instead of cash for thier services, hoping that they win the startup lottery
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IWhy are some companies treating thier employees better than others? Its a battle between the future of work and the past of work
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Chris goes through Apples 9/9/2015 product announcements step-by-step and its true: innovation has finally left the building. Making something bigger, smaller, or copying Microsoft Surface is not innovation
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Looking for a business idea? Combine people helping people with stuff just lying around doing nothing and you might be riding another unicorn
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Dont let anyone tell you what your definition of success should be, dont just be happy with what you have - strive for more and get someone to kick your butt if you cant do it yourself
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When you think innovation, do you typically think Silicon Valley, because there are plenty of other interesting hotbeds of innovation out there, like Africa
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Just because something is popular, it doesnt mean that its relevant - Chris goes into detail on how the 5 big portals to the internet have choked off relevancy in lieu of popularity
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If you ask me, all of this hype over operating systems is overrrated - they should just blend into the background and let you access your apps. And a few words on a new software development service called Gigster
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Instead of innovating by buying up interesting companies, maybe you should look internally and see what interesting billion dollar ideas your own employees are cooking up.
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Looking to build your own billion dollar business? Chris outlines 5 ways in which billion dollar businesses leverage traits inherit in humanity in order to provide services that appeal to everyone.
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If you look at the current state of innovation in the smartphone space, very little new stuff is happening. Where are the folding epaper digital assistants?
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Have you noted that when you remove the human, you improve the experience. Where else csn humans be removed in your business in order to improve your customers experience?
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Is agile software development eating the world, or is life finally infecting software development, and the "ACTUALLY" contest continues
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We should boycott the listicle, I mean have you ever learned anything from a listicle? Also, Apple gets into cars and the "ACTUALLY" contest continues.
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Considering that mating is one of the core things that humans do, Im surprised that no one has invented the perfect dating app yet. Startup founders, time to figure this one out.
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